For They So Love the World

About the Book

Jennifer and Steven, a nuclear submarine Captain, have become strangers to one another due to long separations. He leaves for Naval assignments in the North Atlantic. She moves into an academic career at City College and enrolls in literature courses toward a doctorate as well.

Both are activists for peace, but neither is aware of all of the connections the other pursues in this period of espionage and cold war. Besides strangers, it seems at times that they are enemies.

Set in 1968, their passions collide in Portugal after Jennifer fears that he and his submarine crew are lost somewhere in the North Atlantic.

A pacifist, who no longer believes that Steven loves her, she is thrust into the schemes of enemy spies and physically fights for her life for the first time.

To protect their son and to reclaim her marriage with Steven, whom she has come to understand during her own struggle for survival, she also risks her life as he has done every time he said goodbye.

So, besides greater autonomy for their lives, she and Steven learn they can be separate, but together.

About the Author

Dorothea Paulks live in Oklahoma where she manages her farm, writes and paints. Retirement from career in teaching language arts and in hospital nursing freed time to write. She has published five books at Xlibris since retiring. Sulphur Matches is her fourth novel and her first juvenile book. Adapted from the adult novel, courtesy of Andrew Carnegie, it focuses on the six-year-old Crissy instead of adult characters. She has been writing and publishing since the late sixties: clapbooks, shortstories, articles and one play which Pueblo Press published in 1980. She received her MA in writing from UCO in 1974.